Major TradFi Player VanEck Readies Ethereum Futures ETF VanEck Ethereum Strategy ETF (EFUT) will invest in ETH futures contracts traded on commodity exchanges registered with the CFTC.

Ethereum Developers Try for Second Time to Launch New Holesky Test Network The original planned launch date of Holesky, on Sept. 15, was supposed to celebrate the one-year anniversary of Ethereum’s historic “Merge” transition.

How Ethereum Staking Stacks Up in the Proof-of-Stake Landscape Why is Ethereum the best bet for staking investors? Answer: because it combats inflation.

EigenLayer’s Sreeram Kannan on the Hot (and Risky) Ethereum Trend of ‘Restaking’ In an exclusive interview, Sreeram Kannan, the founder of EigenLayer and a pioneer behind restaking, discusses his project’s goals as a new landscape for restaking emerges.

Five Reasons Why the World Needs a Standardized Ethereum Staking Rate An ether (ETH) staking benchmark could attract institutional investors into the Ethereum ecosystem and unlock a new wave of innovation.

Ethereum Wallet Tied to Sinaloa Cartel Sanctioned by US Government The United States’ Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has sanctioned an Ethereum wallet tied to a Mexican man from Sinaloa named Jimenez Castro.

Ethereum Staking in 2023: A Year of Growth and Transformation Ethereum staking saw strong demand from institutions following the Merge. Even if the adoption rate slows down in a few months, its future looks promising, say Vivek Chauhan and David Lawant, of FalconX.

The State of Staking: 5 Takeaways a Year After Ethereum’s Merge Ethereum’s switch to proof-of-stake fixed some problems, like environmental damage linked to PoW mining. But it raised new issues, including worries about centralization, MEV and censorship, say Margaux Nijkerk and Sam Kessler.

Ethereum’s Shanghai Upgrade Has Failed to Boost Network Activity, JPMorgan Says Daily transactions, daily active addresses and total value locked on the blockchain have all fallen since the upgrade, the report said.

Understanding the Economics of Ethereum Layer 2s Explosive Ethereum growth is on the way, with layer 2s like Arbitrum, Optimism and now Base paving the way, Michael Nadeau of The DeFi Report writes.

The Protocol: Ethereum Struggles With Sprawl as Optimism Airdrops $27M Last week marked the one-year anniversary of Ethereum’s historic “Merge” – the shift to a more energy-efficient proof-of-stake network. But in some ways the largest smart-contract blockchain has become a victim of its own success: Staking is so popular that the number of network validators is mushrooming toward 1 million, introducing new concern…

‘We Can’t Build Something Like This on Ethereum,’ Says DYdX Founder as Mainnet Nears In an exclusive interview, Antonio Juliano, founder of dYdX (and a former Coinbase software engineer), discusses his project’s move to build a new layer-1 blockchain using Cosmos technology.

Eventually, We Are All Ethereum History suggests that, slowly but surely, all layer 2s will migrate to the Ethereum, says EY’s Global Blockchain Leader.

Ethereum’s Holesky Testnet Fails To Launch, in Rare Tech Misstep for the Blockchain Developers of the Ethereum blockchain say there was a misconfiguration in the genesis files of the test network, and now they plan to try again in about two weeks.

Ethereum Blockchain Launches ‘Holesky’ Test Network, on First Anniversary of Historic ‘Merge’ The debut of the testing system – designed to be twice as big as the main network so developers can simulate massive scaling, comes a year after Ethereum completed its historic “Merge” shift to a “proof-of-stake” model from the original “proof-of-work” setup that Bitcoin uses.

A Year After Ethereum Merge, Net Supply Down Nearly 300K Ether Ethereum’s tokenomics exhibit deflationary tendencies one year after the pivotal proof-of-stake upgrade.

Hello Holesky, Ethereum’s Newest Testnet The new network comes after years of growth for Ethereum’s developer community, and will replace the Goerli testnet.

Fabian Vogesteller’s Lukso Blockchain Adds ‘Universal Profiles,’ in Push for ‘Fancy’ Ethereum The Universal Profiles are a feature, currently in beta, designed to give users a holistic “on-chain identity” that comes with a recoverable crypto account as well as a profile for interacting with decentralized applications.

The Protocol: Ethereum Learns of Potential Defector as ‘Supreme Court’ Mooted What is a blockchain “sequencer?” Here’s why you need to know

Explaining Ethereum’s ‘Risk Free’ Rate of Return